SY3 Posted June 3, 2011 Share Posted June 3, 2011 Need some help. I have a 10.5 V2 touch screen that will not boot. I have tried a number of things to get to boot. I have held down the power button for 10 seconds. I have taken the flash card out. I have removed the battery and tried with just ac power.Only the battery light shows when a/c is plugged in. No other lights show up. I've tried it in & out of the docking station.I've even taken the 2 internal batteries out. I guess they are CMOS batteries.The battery light is usually amber but recently turned green. I guess it's charged now. Not sure. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 Please confirm that you have the “lock” set on the back of the 10.5 as that will prevent the unit from powering up. Matt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SY3 Posted June 4, 2011 Author Share Posted June 4, 2011 Thanks Matt. It was set to lock but then I unlocked it and then re-locked it. Now it's booting. Now for the more difficult part of the problem. Unit boots to a black screen.When I first turn it on, the white Control4 screen comes up with "Please Wait" but never goes to "Loading, Please Wait". Then the BIOS screen displays really fast (less than a second) and then the black screen of death.I do have a working 10.5 V1 on my project. So I took the CF card from the V1 and put it into the V2. I got it boot all the way to the navigator screen but would not respond to any touch. So I suspect the CF card is corrupt/bad. I know what everyone is going to say, RMA through your dealer. Since he is no longer in the business and have not needed anything in a while, thought I would turn to the forum for some help.Question: Does the V1 have a different image than a V2? Can I take a V1 image and then do a USB restore?I have the USB restore and the unit just gets stuck on the white Control4 "Please Wait" screen. Left it on for over an hour. Again, any help would be greatly appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SY3 Posted June 4, 2011 Author Share Posted June 4, 2011 So I'm told that I'll need a new CF card with a V2 image running 1.7.4.36. If anyone has a 10.5 V2 they're willing to sell, let me know. I could use another one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SY3 Posted June 19, 2011 Author Share Posted June 19, 2011 Issue resolved. Found a V2 and cloned the CF card. Unit boots fine now and added to project. You don't need Linux to clone the CF card but if you have it and know the commands, good but can be done in Windows. On another note, good idea to have a backup of the CF card if you plan on moving to Pro. Very easy to go back. Just put in the old card and you're good to go. Buy some spare 512MB CF cards for like $4-$6 bucks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PixelPerfect Posted June 19, 2011 Share Posted June 19, 2011 Can you give the source for the info, or a quick guide on how to do it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SY3 Posted June 20, 2011 Author Share Posted June 20, 2011 Ok. Here's the short version. Contact your dealer. LOL. Just kidding. Just had to say that because it's said here so often.I used EASEUS Partition Master Home Edition (Free) to clone the partition. Yes, it worked on the Linux EX3 partition.I used a 2GB USB flash drive. Good to have a different size you don't copy over the good partition. You could also copy directly from 1 CF card to another if you have 2 readers but I only had 1.I placed the CF card into a usb reader and plugged in the 2GB stick. Then launch EASEUS.Delete the partition on the 2B. Apply the changes.Click on the CF card(mine was 512MB) and click on Copy Partition. It will ask you where. Select the Unallocated 2GB space. It will only copy over the 512MB space but you don't care about that.Apply the changes.Put in the CF card you want to copy to. Make sure its Unallocated. Do the same steps above. Once done, just mark the partition active. That's it. Put it back in the Touchpanel and you're on whatever version you copied it from. My card was on 1.7 and then I copied over the 1.7.4 partition. Now put that the 2GB usb somewhere safe in case you need it again. I would recommend this for anyone moving to 1.8. The whole reason I posted was because the 10.5 failed an update to 1.8 by someone else. I tried the USB Restore but it wouldn't re-image the CF card so I imaged it from a working unit.Hope this helps anyone else in the same situation. BTW, I opened my HTC and it has a USB drive in it. If I ever update in the future, I may also back it up. Not sure about HC-300 but I'll check when I need to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PixelPerfect Posted June 21, 2011 Share Posted June 21, 2011 Thanks for the info, very helpful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NL-C4 Posted July 4, 2011 Share Posted July 4, 2011 got the same problem now... CF card won't work. grub error 15and usb- recovery won't boot gives same error...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PixelPerfect Posted July 4, 2011 Share Posted July 4, 2011 Have you tried the posted steps? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vstadler Posted July 4, 2011 Share Posted July 4, 2011 I have the same problems.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NL-C4 Posted July 5, 2011 Share Posted July 5, 2011 Have you tried the posted steps?I don,t have a working image i can use for the cf.So i am stuck. Gonna try to get one. Than we wil see Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PixelPerfect Posted July 5, 2011 Share Posted July 5, 2011 Maybe someone on here has one on the same firmware, that would be willing to copy it and share with you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SY3 Posted July 7, 2011 Author Share Posted July 7, 2011 Send me a PM with your email address and I'll send you the file. Its in my Dropbox site along with the program I used to write the image to the CF card. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NL-C4 Posted July 15, 2011 Share Posted July 15, 2011 a bit busy, but have used your files. thanx. it is running again. need to get it join the network. but it is 100% improvement Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NL-C4 Posted July 15, 2011 Share Posted July 15, 2011 when i update a 10.5 to 2.1can i do that from 1.74 ore better usb restore 1.8 and than update? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ILoveC4 Posted July 15, 2011 Share Posted July 15, 2011 when i update a 10.5 to 2.1can i do that from 1.74 ore better usb restore 1.8 and than update?You can do it from 1.7.4. It isn't a zigbee device, and even if it was, straight to 2.1 is the easier way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NL-C4 Posted July 15, 2011 Share Posted July 15, 2011 got 4 times a problem.... last one did not even usb restore workso i was wondering.....a lot of work for a device that is'nt my own Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NL-C4 Posted July 15, 2011 Share Posted July 15, 2011 update 5 from 54 is taking a lot of timehow long should this update take? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NL-C4 Posted July 15, 2011 Share Posted July 15, 2011 Device Wireless Touch Screen V2 - 10.5"(192.168.1.121):Update server going offline6 minutes now..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NL-C4 Posted July 15, 2011 Share Posted July 15, 2011 still blackscreen and update won't go further Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NL-C4 Posted July 18, 2011 Share Posted July 18, 2011 nice way to update :X new image on cf-card, and than a usb restore with 2.1 software. have done a normal update about 10 times and now luck. well it works now. but strange that it would not update the normal way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nielsen Posted October 20, 2011 Share Posted October 20, 2011 I am having the same issue and don't have a backup of the CF card. Can anyone help me!!! The CF card is completely corrupted and I cannot restore it without a backup image to restore to it. Does anyone have one I can use? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djdmtl Posted July 13, 2012 Share Posted July 13, 2012 EASUS is crap if CF cards are of different size (512MB trying to copy partition to 2GB)My way:Use: http://hddguru.com/software/HDD-Raw-Copy-Tool/It allows you to create a image file which you can keep and restore any amount of times to a CF card.It does sector level copy unlike EASUS partition or other which in my opinion are flaky and don't copy over boot record and MBR....I did backup of working CF card, then I restored on a 2GB flash card and everything works like a charm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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